[04:04.00]Watching the world fall apart all around me/
[04:04.00]Now everyday I wake up thank the Lord that He found me/
[04:04.00]Now every chance I get man I'm praying for my dawgs/
[04:04.00]Because they out there on the block playing with them laws/
[04:04.00]They gave my homie 25 to life life in the pen/
[04:04.00]He's 17 years old never coming back again/
[04:04.00]Now looking through a glass is the only way I see him/
[04:04.00]I tell him bout the Lord cuz He the only can free him/
[04:04.00]I see the baby in the crack house/
[04:04.00]Mommy in the back room/
[04:04.00]Sister doing *** everyday in the bathroom/
[04:04.00]Wonder why they pull me wild n out int he classroom/
[04:04.00]They don't know the story and the drama that's attached to me/
[04:04.00]I starred in every ghetto story/
[04:04.00]But who's daddy he have to ask Maury/
[04:04.00]But Maury told him daddy never coming back again/
[04:04.00]Cuz daddy doing life for a crime in the pen/
[04:04.00]Man we born in the ghetto/
[04:04.00]we raised in the ghetto/
[04:04.00]They call us rock stars cuz we wave heavy metal/
[04:04.00]That bullet hit us hard send us straight to the devil/
[04:04.00]Here come the paul-bearers grave digger get the shovel/
[04:04.00]we looking for that ribbon in the sky/
[04:04.00]But that's hard to see when we ain't even got eyes/
[04:04.00]Imma live everybody else die/
[04:04.00]Imma crack a smile everybody else cry/
[04:04.00]My granny told me never question God, but why so hard living where we live, and being who we are/
[04:04.00]the system and the laws, man they made for us to fall/
[04:04.00]But you can help us God, please help us God./
[04:04.00]
[04:04.00]So hard to see your world come tumbling down/
[04:04.00]It's falling fast and I have no idea how/
[04:04.00]can anybody hear me/
[04:04.00]I know, you know, what's down the road again/
[04:04.00]there's hope, I know, show me/
[04:04.00]
[04:04.00]I saw a thousand birds fall from the sky/
[04:04.00]the? sighs say we living in the last times/
[04:04.00]the clock is ticking harder I can hear it in my mind/
[04:04.00]We got floods in Brazil, floods in America/
[04:04.00]Floods all around the world they even hit Australia/
[04:04.00]Countries getting bombed, raided, war is ahead of us/
[04:04.00]Earthquakes shake the ground, Lord what you telling us/
[04:04.00]So many people gathered in the streets/
[04:04.00]Uproars break out in the middle east/
[04:04.00]Got me on my knees praying to the Lord for peace/
[04:04.00]Bloody bodies being found dead in the streets/
[04:04.00]We see a baby crying looking for its mom/
[04:04.00]Searching through the rubble of a suicide bomb/
[04:04.00]A lady crying holding onto a bloody arm/
[04:04.00]The country getting torn apart by a civil war/
[04:04.00]Lord they looking for that ribbon in the sky/
[04:04.00]But it's hard to see when they aint even got eyes/
[04:04.00]Imma live everybody else die/
[04:04.00]Imma crack a smile everybody else cry/
[04:04.00]My granny told me never question God, but why so hard living where we live, and being who we are/
[04:04.00]the system and the laws, man they made for us to fall/
[04:04.00]But you can help us God, please help us God./
[04:04.00]
[04:04.00]So hard to see your world come tumbling down/
[04:04.00]It's falling fast and I have no idea how/
[04:04.00]can anybody hear me/
[04:04.00]I know, you know, what's down the road again/
[04:04.00]there's hope, I know, show me/